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Newsom “Strategy” Condemns Central Valley Salmon to “Hotter, Drier Future”
The “California Salmon Strategy” announced January 30, 2024 by the Newsom Administration is a tour de force of avoidance and deflection. It blows right past the single largest issue facing California’s salmon: inadequate flows into and through the Bay-Delta Estuary. The Newsom administration has been, and continues to be, on the wrong side of Delta…
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How A Lack of Regulatory Oversight Dried Up the Merced River – The State Water Board Needs to Protect Merced River Flows Now
The Merced River, the iconic wild and scenic river flowing out of Yosemite National Park, died in the summer of 2022 upstream of its confluence with the San Joaquin River. The river was completely dewatered from July 7 to October 7. It was dead for 3 months over a nearly 5-mile stretch. It could not…
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CSPA Submits Comments on Proposed Bay-Delta Plan Update
On Friday, January 19, 2024, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance and AquAlliance submitted comments on the State Water Resources Control Board’s (State Board’s) proposed changes to the Bay-Delta Plan. The State Board proposed these changes in a Draft Staff Report (Report) released on September 28, 2023. The stated objective of the Plan update is to provide…
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The Delta Conveyance Project: Either We Survive Together or Perish Together
On December 8th, 2023, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) issued the Final Environmental Impact Report (Final EIR) for its proposed Delta Conveyance Project, informally called the Delta tunnel. During the required comment period following DWR’s release of its Draft Environmental Impact Report (Draft EIR), the public, native tribes, and non-governmental organizations submitted 700 letters…
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CSPA Strong after 40 Years: We Will Not Surrender this Delta!
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance celebrated its fortieth birthday in 2023. CSPA’s year of birth, 1983, was one year after California voters voted down the “peripheral canal” to divert water around the Delta. CSPA’s mission to protect fisheries, habitat, and water quality is a good idea that lives on. Unfortunately, the Department of Water Resources’…
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